Amalie Alver, Kavita Batra, Amrita Patel, and Kenneth Izuora (all Medicine) Arpita Basu (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), Antonina Capurro, Civon Gewelber, Kristin Baca, Shelley Williams, and Jeffrey Ebersole (all Dental) presented the results of their research collaboration, “Predictor of Food Insecurity among Ambulatory Patients with…

Jeffrey Ebersole and Linh Nguyen (both Dental) co-authored “Variations in IgG Antibody Subclass Responses to Oral Bacteria: Effects of Periodontal Disease and Modifying Factors,” which appeared in the Journal of Periodontal Research. Ebersole also co-authored “Transcriptomic Phases of Periodontitis Lesions Using the Nonhuman Primate Model,” which…

Manoj Sharma, Jason Flatt (both Environmental & Occupational Health), and Kavita Batra (Medicine), published an article, “Testing the Multi-theory Model (MTM) to Predict the Use of New Technology for Social Connectedness in the COVID-19 Pandemic” in the journal, Healthcare. The article tackles the public health issue of social isolation that…

Dr. Jingchun Chen (Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine) has published an article, "Artificial Image Objects for Classification of Schizophrenia with GWAS-selected SNVs and Convolutional Neural Network," in Patterns, a Cell Press journal. Additional contributing authors are Xiangning Chen, Daniel G. Chen, Zhongming Zhao, Justin Zhan, and…

Ann M. Vuong (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) recently presented research on “Exposure to a Mixture of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) During Pregnancy and Maternal Cardiometabolic Health: The HOME Study" at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research last month. 

Dr. Kavita Batra (Medicine) was invited as a lead speaker to present "Nuts and Bolts of the Research and Statistical Analysis" in an International E-Conference on Innovation and Practices of Modern Sports Science and Traditional Yoga (endorsed by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India) organized by the Physical…

Rebecca Rice (Communication Studies) and co-authors published a forum essay titled "Revisiting Ethnography in Organizational Communication Studies" in the journal Management Communication Quarterly. The essay brings scholars who have used ethnographic observation in organizational settings into a conversation about the future of the…

Dana Cotham and Holli Wardlow (both Hospitality) recently received $3,500 in grants from the office of undergraduate research's 2021 Undergraduate Research Stimulus Program. The duo received funding in support of their research project, “ Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity-based Workplace Policies and Practices Benefit a Hospitality Employer's…

Kenneth Varner and Tina Vo (both Teaching & Learning), along with Michaela Stone of Northern Vermont University, published the chapter "Toward a Glocality of Teacher Education: Professional Development Abroad in the Chilean Context" in the book Education Abroad: Learning Environments in a Global Context.

Hyelin Kim, Sung-Eun Kim, and Samuel Lee (all Hospitality) recently co-authored an article that appeared in the Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing. The article explores the gratification factors of event-focused social media content that affect information sharing and information trust and ultimately the intention to attend an event. …

Drs. Elissa Palmer and Dr. James Alexander (both Medicine) worked together to obtain a $2.9 million Health Resources and Services Administration training grant for UNLV Medicine's department of family medicine. The grant will be used to enhance family medicine education in maternity care and obstetrics training for resident physicians in Las…

Joe Ervin (Academic Success Center), Dave Beisecker, and Jasmin Özel (both Philosophy) recently published their paper in Philosophy of Education. Their paper focuses on the educational work of William Torrey-Harris and the St. Louis Hegelians, and John Dewey. Analyzing such Hegelian educational thought, their paper…